Animal-trap



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'E. S.'VHOTOHKISS.

- ANIMAL TRAP.

No. 355,016. Patentd'Dec. 28,1888.

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EDWVARD S. HO'ICHKISS, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

ANIMAL-=TRAP.

SP3CJlIPICA'lIOhl' forming part of Letters Patent No. 355,016, dated December 28, 1886,

' Application filed March 24, 1886.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD S. Horcnn ss, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bridgeport, in the county ofFairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Animal-Traps; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in .the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to certain novel and useful improvements in the construction of animal-traps, and has for its object to provide such a device as shall be readily cleansed, and which shall be exceedingly economical in cost; and with these ends in View my invention consists in certain details of construction and combination of elements hereinafter set forth, and specifically designated by the claim.

In order that those skilled in the art to which my invention appertains may more fully un: derstand the same, I will proceed to describe the construction thereof, reference being had by letter to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved trap, Fig. 2, a perspective showing the body of the trap after it has been bent into shape, and Fig. 3 a plan view of the blank from which the trap is formed by bending at the line :0.

Similar letters denote like parts in the several figures of the drawings.

A is the body of the trap, B the side, and C the openings through which the bait is reached.

Serial No. 196.369. (No model.)

D is a sink formed within the central portion of the body, and within which the coils of the choker-frames are secured.

In manufacturing my improved trap, Ifirst blank out from sheet metal the body desired. The central sink, D, the openings 0, and the various perforations for the attachment of the chokcr-wires may be formed simultaneously with the blanking, or they may be formed after the bending. The blank is cupped up or bent into the shape shown at Fig. 3 by means of dies.

The chief advantages which my improvement possesses are, first, the facility with which the trap may be cleaned; second, the doing away with partitions between the baithooks, and, third, the durability and neatness of the trap.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is- In an animal-trap, the sides and top formed integral from a single blank of sheet metal,

said sides having openings cut therein, and the top having a central depression, the trap entirely devoid of interior partitions, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD S. HO'ICHKISS.

V WVitnesses:

S. S. WILLIAMsoN, S. H. HUBBARD. 

